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5:1  This is the list of the descendants of Adam. (When God created human beings, he made them like himself.
5:2  He created them male and female, blessed them, and named them “Human Beings.”)
5:3  When Adam was 130 years old, he had a son who was like him, and he named him Seth.
5:4  After that, Adam lived another 800 years. He had other children
5:5  and died at the age of 930.
5:6  When Seth was 105, he had a son, Enosh,
5:7  and then lived another 807 years. He had other children
5:8  and died at the age of 912.
5:9  When Enosh was 90, he had a son, Kenan,
5:10  and then lived another 815 years. He had other children
5:11  and died at the age of 905.
5:12  When Kenan was 70, he had a son, Mahalalel,
5:13  and then lived another 840 years. He had other children
5:14  and died at the age of 910.
5:15  When Mahalalel was 65, he had a son, Jared,
5:16  and then lived another 830 years. He had other children
5:17  and died at the age of 895.
5:18  When Jared was 162, he had a son, Enoch,
5:19  and then lived another 800 years. He had other children
5:20  and died at the age of 962.
5:21  When Enoch was 65, he had a son, Methuselah.
5:22  After that, Enoch lived in fellowship with God for 300 years and had other children.
5:23  He lived to be 365 years old.
5:24  He spent his life in fellowship with God, and then he disappeared, because God took him away.
5:25  When Methuselah was 187, he had a son, Lamech,
5:26  and then lived another 782 years. He had other children
5:27  and died at the age of 969.
5:28  When Lamech was 182, he had a son
5:29  and said, “From the very ground on which the Lord put a curse, this child will bring us relief from all our hard work”; so he named him Noah.
5:30  Lamech lived another 595 years. He had other children
5:31  and died at the age of 777.
5:32  After Noah was 500 years old, he had three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.